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I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

the U.S. press position is that user LeninGood1921 stands for the Democratic Party, but the words and actions of the Republican President cannot be taken as representing the Republican Party.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

If you do not understand that Republicans have invested heavily in creating a vast infrastructure that is designed for the singular purpose of shifting public opinion, and that their best politicians know how to use it for electoral politics, you should not be a political pundit

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

"Voters don't care, so we don't make an issue of it" is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

My thought of the Qatari jet is that the moment Trump is out of office, the net president ought to seize it and sell it on the grounds that based on the emoluments clause, it could never have been a gift to Trump personally and so must have been a gift to the federal government.

submitted 49 days ago • 75 comments

Donald Trump has lost nearly 10% of voters—almost 20% of his support—since his election last year. He’s done so largely because he’s pursued the policies he ran on, and most people hate them. Who is at fault for voters not understanding what he ran on? I’d say the press is largely culpable.

submitted 62 days ago • 179 comments

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 85 days ago • 419 comments

Important to remember that the reason most Trump voters think everything's fine is that their chosen media is telling them little more than that he's cutting government waste and frogmarching criminals out of the country. Real information doesn't reach them. An economic collapse? That might.

submitted 87 days ago • 75 comments

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

submitted 92 days ago • 244 comments

Democrats should say they’ll vote for Rick Scott’s bill if he can identify more Medicaid fraud than he committed.

submitted 123 days ago • 10 comments

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.

submitted 142 days ago • 295 comments

Real "The front fell off..." energy.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

particularly maddening coming from the DC political press. "we didn't remotely communicate the stakes of this election, but Trump has a mandate to do the things we didn't tell you about, hands tied"

submitted 151 days ago • 22 comments

One of the ways in which the US has fallen behind other constitutional democracies in the development of appropriate institutions is the absence of rules limiting what incumbents can do during election season and during the post-election transition if they're voted out of office. cf January 6.

submitted 583 days ago • 16 comments

The whole Twitter Files was about the possibility that government was too involved in social media. Meanwhile, Musk has Attorney Generals competing to use government powers to investigate his critics.

submitted 586 days ago • 14 comments

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

submitted 589 days ago • 102 comments